Long night's journey into day : prisoners of war in the Far East, 1941-1945 / Charles G. Roland.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roland, Charles G.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prisoners of war--Health and hygiene--Japan.

Prisoners of war.

Prisoners of war--China--Hong Kong.

Prisoners of war--Japan.

World War, 1939-1945--Medical care--Japan.

World War, 1939-1945.

World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (450 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Sickness, starvation, brutality, and forced labour plagued the existence of tens of thousands of Allied POWs in World War II. More than a quarter of these POWs died in captivity. Long Night's Journey into Day centres on the lives of Canadian, British, Indian, and Hong Kong POWs captured at Hong Kong in December 1941 and incarcerated in camps in Hong Kong and the Japanese Home Islands. Experiences of American POWs in the Philippines, and British and Australians POWs in Singapore, are interwoven throughout the book. Starvation and diseases such as diphtheria, beriber

Contents:

Contents; Illustrations and Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Hong Kong Chronology; 1. Hong Kong before 8 December 1941; 2. The Eighteen-Day War: 8-25 December 1941; 3. The Prisoner-of-War Camps and Hospitals; 4. Prisoner-of-War Life in Hong Kong; 5. Trying to Cope with Too Little Food; 6. In Sickness, Rarely in Health: Life and Death in the Camps and Hospitals; 7. The Overseas Drafts; 8. POW Camps in the Japanese Home Islands; 9. Less than Perfect Soldiers; 10. The Journey Ends-But It Never Does; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786610943173

9781554587766

155458776X

9781280943171

1280943173

9780889209428

0889209421

OCLC:

65183874